Examining the usage of xiao and its role as vague language in the textual conversations of Singapore millennials

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Hong, Amanda Yu Hua
• مؤلفون آخرون: Stefanie Stadler
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73154

This paper examines the use of the pragmatic particle xiao in the Singaporean context. Postulated to have originated from online Chinese discourse, xiao is used to alter the impact of utterances through the increment of vagueness in the propositions, adding ambiguity and signalling non-prototypical...